RIAA launch their promised campaign of lawsuits...

[denny]

WASHINGTON (September 8, 2003) The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced today that its member companies have filed the first wave of what could ultimately be thousands of civil lawsuits against major offenders who have been illegally distributing substantial amounts (averaging more than 1,000 copyrighted music files each) of copyrighted music on peer-to-peer networks. The RIAA emphasized that these lawsuits have come only after a multi-year effort to educate the public about the illegality of unauthorized downloading and noted that major music companies have made vast catalogues of music available to dozens of new high-quality, low-cost, legitimate online services.

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Comments

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Argh, that's such a load of bollocks. They know, and admit, that the main reason any of this exists is because of artificially high prices for music CDs.

I wouldn't buy any music just because I wasn't able to download it.

I wish they'd just fuck off and realise they need to lower prices. The public voted, and they have to abide by the decision rather than throw their toys out of their prams.

I know that prices *have* been lowered for the first time, but I'll wait and see if those price-cuts are fully passed on to the consumer. Too little too late, boyo. </rant>